Red-flanked Bluetail

Above: Winspit, Dorset (October 1984). Scanned from print.

Mike and Tanya Langman and I found this gem one cold October morning, immediately after we had decided to pack up birding for the day and head back up to the pub to sit infront of a warm log fire. It was the first ever twitchable mainland record for Britain ... and the rest is history!

See original picture taken just after the bird was found on 30th October 1993.

View article from Bournemouth Evening Echo, 1st November 1993.

View article from The Times, 1st November 1993.

View article from The Purbeck Evening Echo, 1st November 1993.